“Control monitors need alignment assessments too” by Fabien Roger

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 25, 2026 · 7m

TL;DR:

When misalignment monitors fail, it is already often because of alignment failures, not because they are too weak. I expect this to continue in the future.

Monitor evals share similar difficulties with agent alignment evals - which is bad news since getting evidence about agent alignment using alignment evals is hard.

Alignment eval results should not be the only input to monitor alignment assessments, similar to how alignment evals should not be the only input to agent alignment assessments.

These are my personal views; they do not represent the views of my employers.

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